NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has produced the first vertical map of Uranus’s ionosphere, giving scientists a ...

New images of Uranus show the planet in blue, the upper atmosphere in red, auroras in lighter red spots and rings in white. ESA / Webb, NASA, CSA, STScI, P. Tiranti, H. Melin, M. Zamani (ESA / Webb) ...

New research using the James Webb Space Telescope offers the most detailed portrait yet of how auroras form on Uranus.

What does the atmosphere of Uranus look like? This is what a recent study published in Geophysical Research Letters hopes to address as a team of researchers from the United States and United Kingdom ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lead image: ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, STScI, P. Tiranti, H. Melin, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb) (For the first time, an international team of ...

When it's not busy dissecting distant galaxies or creating dark matter maps, the James Webb Space Telescope is also making a name for itself closer to home. To wit, it has produced the first-ever ...

The planet Uranus is finally revealing some of its best-hidden phenomena, thanks to a completely new mapping of its upper atmosphere. Created for the first time in three dimensions, this overview ...

Among the solar system’s planets, Uranus is criminally overlooked. Much like its outer solar system neighbor, Neptune, this “ice giant” world is so far from the sun (and so visually bland) that we ...

Its bland exterior belies a dynamic world full of surprises Shi En Kim - Reporter Let’s get this out of the way—any scientist studying Uranus will tell you that they’re tired of the planet being the ...

Uranus spins on its side, creating a wild magnetosphere. Unlike Earth's stable bubble, Uranus's magnetic field is lopsided ...

One of the world’s most powerful telescopes has peered inside Uranus to map its version of the northern lights in 3D for the first time. The pale turquoise ball of gas is one of the weirder planets in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you think auroras on Earth are a strange and mesmerizing sight, that's nothing like what occurs on the perplexing world of ...